Disconnect multiplayer when prison gets bigger

[Anonymous John Doe]

After contacting paradox support they asked me to submit a bug here.

When a prison is getting bigger the multiplayer will disconnect people connected to the session. With a small prison it only stutters once in a while but when the prison gets bigger its getting unplayable. I haven't seen this problem getting solved in the last +2 years so i'm hoping a developer could take a look into this. Ive added a savegame to this threat so it can be reproduced. A friend of mine also said the game was stuttering.

Enviromentals:
* Me and my friend have both a 1gbit (up and down) internet connection
* He lives about 75km away from me.
* Ping between our computers is low all the time (also when getting disconnected)

Steps to reproduce:
* Load save-game
* Let a player connect to it
* Blueprint a section of the prison
* And let it get build
* Players connected to the session will get disconnected.

Running latest steam-version of the game. No mods installed.

 

[Anonymous John Doe]

I see multiple photon disconnect messages. Attached you’ll find the log of my friend that is connecting to my session.

Float Data not found : LastIntakeTime
Failed to parse Sentences Data.Failed to parse Guard Investigation Data.SectorSystem check: There are 13 new sectors.
Total World Load Time (w:200 h:160) 682ms
Load completed in 892ms (209ms to read file, 683ms to parse data)
Disconnected from Photon: ConnectionFailed (3/1039) Connection Failed
WorldRenderer: vexCellTypes initialised in 1ms : 64000 triangles (vex,tex), 3.7 MBytes
ShaderOpenGL successfully compiled : LightMapNoFOWNoColour

if needed I can also post my debug file.

 

[Anonymous John Doe]

Anyone?

 

[Anonymous John Doe]

Still no-one interested in responding?

 

[AndrewT]

There was a major patch last year that fixed many MP issues, and reports like this have dropped away to almost nothing since then.

But I can't remember if that patch was before or after you made this thread, I'm sorry.

If you start a new test prison under the current patch do you still get this?

 

[Anonymous John Doe]

There was a major patch last year that fixed many MP issues, and reports like this have dropped away to almost nothing since then.

But I can't remember if that patch was before or after you made this thread, I'm sorry.

If you start a new test prison under the current patch do you still get this?

I've tried it tonight and its still causes a crash.

How to reproduce:
- New game
- Large size
- 1 person joined (+host)
- Unlimited money
- 200 workers
- Build some large quantities of cells
- Clone them
- And the game will crash

 

[AndrewT]

Please attach here a .prison file that causes this for you. You'll need to zip it up to attach it.

@Enigmaticrose4 can you have that save checked out please? See if it happens elsewhere too?

 

[Anonymous John Doe]

Please attach here a .prison file that causes this for you. You'll need to zip it up to attach it.

@Enigmaticrose4 can you have that save checked out please? See if it happens elsewhere too?

The game crashes so it’s impossible for me to make a savegame. Can’t you use the steps I’ve written down to replicate it? I was able to do this in 5 minutes.

 

[Enigmaticrose4]

The game crashes so it’s impossible for me to make a savegame. Can’t you use the steps I’ve written down to replicate it? I was able to do this in 5 minutes.

Due to how IV implemented multiplayer and how the game wasn't originally designed for it there are definite issues and, sadly, always will be. Best I can offer is a work around in doing smaller clones. Perhaps cell by cell instead of the block. More time consuming, but not as stressful on the connection.

 

[Anonymous John Doe]

Due to how IV implemented multiplayer and how the game wasn't originally designed for it there are definite issues and, sadly, always will be. Best I can offer is a work around in doing smaller clones. Perhaps cell by cell instead of the block. More time consuming, but not as stressful on the connection.

Yesterday I've tested this with a friend of mine without any cloning. We only made a fence around a large map and placed 4 offices for employees. Then my friend got disconnected.